Selling a property

Question: When selling a house what are the main points buyers are interested in, what do they look for?

Question: Our house has been on the market for almost 6 months! We've had 50 viewings and NO offers. The small garden backs on to an overgrown tube line and most viewers seem very concerned about this although

Question: We have unknowingly bought a badly done first floor flat Victorian conversion. The problem is that the unique bathroom of the flat has been located in one of what used to be a bedroom and in the absen

Question: We agreed to purchase a property which the agent’s particulars and web-site stated had a 1.5 acre plot. Our surveyor has measured it at 0.75/0.80 acres at best. Estate agent hot-footed it out to

Question: We have just agreed a part exchange deal with a major house builder. There has been an agreed planning application and an outline planning application submitted that will entail having 2 chalet bungal

Question: I am trying to sell a house on a busy road , which seems to be putting off potential viewers, what advise can you give me?

Question: Our detached 4 bed detached property has been on the market for over 4 months, 12 weeks with one local agent and 6 weeks with a corporate agent. We've only received 3 lots of viewers who have confirme

Question: We are currently in the process of selling our property. It is a split level flat with ground floor and basement. When we purchased the property 3 years ago we have the basement damp proofed and this

Question: Hello we accepted an offer on our house 13 weeks ago for a can sale but then the buyer decided he needed a mortgage for some of the money and now he’s is having trouble proving his finances and

Question: My wife and I have had our house on the property market for almost two years. In that time, we have switched estate agents three times because none seem to be very pro-active. We have had over twenty

Question: I will try and keep this short but it is a bit of a saga. Any help that you can give would be gratefully received. My wife and I are selling our leasehold flat which is one of eight in an old Victoria

Question: I have been trying to sell my three bed roomed flat for nearly a year. I am really worried that I am not approaching potential buyers effectively. Though I have asked estate agents to advertise the pr

Question: I have put my house up for sale and I have accepted an offer from a buyer, the buyer has done his survey and has confirmed the sale. I would now like to remove the property off the market and put it b

Question: We are in the process of selling our property and discovered that we did not have title to some of the land around our house, this resulted in us having to pay for an expensive land search to determin

Question: I am wanting to sell my flat in the UK and the estate agent has advised me that the whole process will grind to a halt if the solicitor cannot contact the freeholder. The freeholder lives overseas

Question: My dad (aged 75) owns and lives in a listed building, built 1704, in a conservation area. He is concerned that the chimney may be unstable as there are some visible cracks in it, he is not a wealthy m

Question: We have taken our house off the market today with our estate agent if we changed our mind tomorrow could we put our house back on the market again with a different estate agent or is there a period of

Question: I am currently selling a property and have buyer - we have both instructed solicitors. As I understand it, once the sale is completed the sale money goes to my solicitor who pays back my mortgage lend

Question: I am currently in the process of selling my property. When I bought the property (a mammoth one bed flat with sole use of a nearly 100ft garden) my only worry was that if I ever came to sell, agents w

Question: My estate agent's terms of business has conflicting information relating to the commission payable and has been signed for a number of months by both parties. It states the commission rate is 1.5%